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I was the Sharepoint admin for a prior employer and we got Sharepoint just as it came out. The learning curve was too steep for some of our users, and our advanced users found it too locked down to really do some of the things that they wanted. But, this was when it first came out, and since then, I have been hearing a lot of good things about it. I would love to play with it and see the changes they have made.

Thanks for the feedback, Layal. I'd love to hear what others' experiences with it have been as well. I was trained on some parts of it last summer, but haven't actually used it in daily work, so I'm pretty rusty. I used the 2007 version.

"Increasingly, nonprofits are faced with the challenge of managing large
amounts of data across multiple systems internally, while at the same
time providing external users with a seamless, integrated experience
across different applications and devices."

This can be challenging indeed. OrniPoint offers a solution to this by providing an "Omni-Connector" tool that will connect SharePoint to multiple repositories across multiple systems or file shares like eRoom, Documentum, Lotus Notes, SQL Server, etc. This could be very helpful in aiding the implementation of an "integrated knowledge management platform" without having to migrate all of the information directly to a centralized SharePoint Server.

In addition, OrniPoint expands SharePoint's out of the box features to allow Autofiling and Autonaming of documents based upon user-defined properties. These documents are stored in customizable SharePoint libraries which users can set to be automatically
created based on information they provide.

I have had the opportunity to view a demo of the product about a month ago and it seemed like it could become a very powerful solution to expand SharePoint's already enticing platform. Has anyone had the chance to view this product or use it in action?